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In fact, the U.S. does not rank in the top 20 countries for best health care.
In fact, the U.S. does not rank in the top 20 countries for best health care.
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than in theComment -
but the budget is the biggest in the world
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Keep your grimy government fingers outta my medicare!Comment -
yes fish, when comparing two things it is than.Originally posted by durito
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don't believe all the studies you read, they usually have agendas. Michael Moore says cuba has better healthcare than the US. In the US you can get the best healthcare in the world if you can pay for it.Comment -
that's awful. I knew ours wasn't great but damn.
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If I was the President I would have the FBI scroll through all these dumb fuks in the tea party movement bitching about big government. I would abruptly & completely cut their food stamps & medicare. There's 80% of your fukin tea party done! Stupid coksukersComment -
Originally posted by poker_dummy101yes fish, when comparing two things it is than.
Never understood then/than.............I will get it sooner or later.
I just learned your/you're a few months ago.
I'm a NUMBERS guy, not a LETTERS guy............
FH
ps-- and to think I have three sisters with English degrees.........
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Engrish degrees!
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well yeah! But the richest country in the world should be able to provide great healthcare to its citizens like say, Canada & every modern country in Europe does & most of central america does.Originally posted by robertg
I also want socialized prostitution! I can't afford a $5,000 a night hooker, but I should be able to get a decent piece of ass for $50 or upgrade to one with all her limbs for $200Comment -
No point of comparison. CR as well as Cuba have unique health care system in the continent, weird but true.Originally posted by FishheadComment -
Originally posted by THE PROFIT
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come to costa ricaOriginally posted by THE PROFIT
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You can get that down here for $100.Originally posted by THE PROFITComment -
Government takes out 9% from every of my paychecks to cover my heath care.Comment -
I'd gladly pay 9% for 100% healthcareOriginally posted by RichardMossComment -
I've been wanting to move to CR for a while now, I just have to get some things in order here. I knew a guy who lived there for 13 years and he made it sound great.Comment -
you should see most of the public hospitals down here... Everyone I know down here with some money goes to private hospitals. Don't believe the hype.Comment -
Health care is better in a non developed country than the USAComment -
Yah, CR is awesome. I had a mountain bike accident recently, and was taken to a public hospital initially, for them to pop my shoulder back in, then transferred to a private hospital for the orthopedic surgery (but only because I did not want to sit in a hospital bed for 4 days with a broken knee waiting for the next available surgery appointment).
At the public hospital, they didn't ask for money. Was treated, then transferred. Gotta love universal health care. The private hospital cost me money, though, but still a ton cheaper than what I would've paid in the states. Cost me a total of $5k for a 3-day hospital day, trip to the ER, orthopedic surgeon, medicine, etc. I think I would cringe at what it would cost back home.Comment -
About $120,000Originally posted by chilidogComment -
talking to the surgeon for 15 minutes, a night in the hospital, and a tab script would have been 5K here.
I had a car wreck, flipped a convertible 4 times. I was knocked out. Had no broken bones, nothing wrong with me, very lucky. But they ship me out of the wreck in a helicopter to the best trauma unit in the area. I wake up in the hospital & dont hardly know what happened.
The bill for a helicopter ride of about 30 miles in $6,000. I said I didnt need a helicopter, I didnt call a helicopter, you fuks could have thrown me in the back of a pickup & the results would be the same.Comment -
universal health care for allComment -
I would say the only downside to CR healthcare is the lack of pain medication available. There is literally nothing available in between tylenol 3 (codeine/acetomenophen) and morphine. So you're either still in pain from the codeine, or passed out from the morphine. They told me I was being 'very demanding' because the shit they were giving me wasn't doing anything for the pain, and the surgeon didn't seem to think that my pain was bad enough to warrant morphine.Comment -
I once had a cold in CR which got worse and I was coughing up brown stuff and realized I needed some antibiotics. In CR the pharmacies employee doctors so you can consult with them and get your prescription. I told the guy I thought I needed antibiotics and he asked me a couple of questions about how long I'd had it and if I was taking other medication, then he wrote me a script for a heavy three day treatment, and told me to come back if that didn't knock it out. It only took a couple of minutes, but I felt I had rapport with this Doctor and that he'd remember me if I came back.
I took the script to the little cage where you pay for it and then wait for them to fill it. In and out in fifteen minutes, total cost $4.50. In three days I was back to normal.Comment -
I like Mexicos health care system. You have a consultation in the front seat of the doctors '76 cadillac brougham in front of the cantina. He opens the pill book & you point to what you want. You take the script to the pharmacy, out in 10 minutes for about $40 with pain killers not legal in the US.Comment -
We do have an extended pain killers menu, you just need a doc's prescription for them, same as in anywhere else, maybe on some cases there're generic (not main/original pharmaceutical factory)Comment -
I assume that your are refering to the 2000 WHO report on the ranking of World Healthcare Systems, which the US ranked 37th on the Overall Performance rankings - The lesser reported number was the Overall Attainment level with the US ranked 15th, whith a margin of error range from 7th-22th (a chart in which the afformetion Cuba ranks 40th and Costa Rica 45)
Looking closer and understanding these numbers would help alot of people --
In fact the metric by which the Who measure these were divided into two forms
Quality and equity
the quality section was based on; Health Level (based on DALE) and responsiveness levels for the US were 24th and 1st receptively
The Equity Levels of Health Distribution, Responsiveness distribution and Fairness ranked 32nd, 1st and 72nd respectively.
The fact that "fairness"; measured as a proportion of percapita income spent on heathcare counted for 25% of the ranking and the US ranks last, obviously dosne't affect the "quality" of the actual care but the system.Comment -
Yet the United States still has the best health professionals. The top, cream of the crop.Comment -
the system may be considered better but I promise you, the healthcare is not.. yeah.. costa rica has better doctors and clinics than the US..
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To an extent, but they told me that vicodin/oxy isnt available here. Everything they gave me was OTC except for the fentanyl shot I got once . I was in pain for 4-5 days after I got released from the hospital, and I just had to tough it out.Originally posted by RichardMossComment -
Our private hospitals are US-quality, in all senses.Originally posted by ProfaneRealitythe system may be considered better but I promise you, the healthcare is not.. yeah.. costa rica has better doctors and clinics than the US..Comment -
what is putting CR in this position is the academic level, still it's a 3rd world country with lots of limitations. Government should expend more in infrastructure of hospitals and clinics. In the case of Cuba they export a considerable amount of doctors, most of them thru politic deals between countries (Cuba-Venezuela case).Comment -
I think there should be some kind of system to control healthcare and hospitals and so on , from where those idiots are taking prices for their service
for example when my wife was pregnant I took her for echoscopy, and during echo doctor was talking about prices and foreign healthcare, echoscopy's price was 20$ in our country and in france for exapmle it costs 600 $ , he said. and I was thinking about it, what the ****, just for 15 minutes work and reading data from echo monitor should cost 600 ? even 20 $ for our country where mean salary is somewhere 300-500$, is very expensive, not talking about other medical services. sometimes want to take a gun and shoot them up
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